Trying CATMAID with Docker

If you want to try CATMAID before performing a complete installation, a Docker image is available containing a running basic CATMAID installation. Docker is a system for distributing programs, dependencies, and system configuration in containers that work like lightweight virtual machines.

After installing Docker, download and run the CATMAID image:

docker run -p 8080:80 catmaid/catmaid

Navigate your browser to http://localhost:8080 and you should see the CATMAID landing page. You can log in as a superuser with username “admin” and password “admin”. The Docker image contains a few example CATMAID projects and stacks, but you can add your own through the admin page.

Warning

Any users, projects, stacks or annotations you add to the running Docker container will by default be lost when you next run it. To save these changes, you must commit them with docker. However, this is not a best practice for using Docker, and we currently do not recommend the CATMAID Docker image for production use.